Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott will cease election campaigning briefly on Tuesday evening to attend the launch of an Afghanistan exhibition at the Australian War Memorial.
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''Afghanistan: The Australian Story'' pays tribute to the Australian forces operating in the Middle East.
Chief of the Australian Defence Force General David Hurley will deliver the opening address.
Before the launch, the names of the 40 Australians on the Afghanistan roll of honour will be read by Lieutenant-General David Morrison at the daily Last Post ceremony.
Wreaths will be laid in honour of the Defence Force members killed in the war.
Last week a blast-damaged storage bin from an Australian Army Bushmaster vehicle was handed over to the war memorial to go on display in the new exhibition.
The vehicle was blown up when it went over an insurgent bomb in Afghanistan in November.
Three Australians received minor wounds in the blast.
The vehicle - a large armoured troop transport - manufactured in Bendigo by defence company Thales, had been delivered only several months before the blast and needed to be returned to Australia for repairs.
Many Bushmasters have been blown up by insurgent bombs, some destroyed, but no soldier has been killed in one.